Birthday Is Approaching

With Brody’s first birthday approaching in less than a month (so hard to believe), I’ve been doing a lot of research online for various ideas.

I, at first, had planned to not do anything special (just get a smash cake and enjoy watching Brody ourselves with my parents, who will be in town to celebrate with us), but after talking to some other friends, everyone seems to be going the birthday party route and I don’t want Brody to be left out of the fun (plus, secretly, I love planning this sort of thing).

So…it was easy to come up with a theme….sports, but more importantly, soccer (this way I can use the next few years and go through the various sports, if I want to, until he can come up with his own ideas). Ok, so back to the soccer theme. I found a cute shirt on Etsy (see above photo…a sneak peak from his photo shoot a couple of weekends ago). I am making Brody’s birthday invitations (um…can you guess…soccer themed) and wanted to get pictures of him in his birthday shirt (which has a “1″ on the back). The photo displayed above is one that I’m not using.

I found soccer themed plates and such at the local party store (haven’t purchased these yet). I have called in our cake order. We’re using a local Mom from one of my Mommy Groups. I hear she makes a mean cake. I can’t wait to try it. I told her soccer themed and she came up with some awesome ideas. I can’t wait to see it all. We’ll do a chocolate cake, some side cupcakes (vanilla) and then a smash cake for Brody. I’ll show pictures of his party when that time comes.

I found some fun “goody bag” ideas to hand out to the kids (so no one will go home empty handed). I think I’m even going to get small pumpkins and put the kids names on them to take home (overdoing it???). This party thing is my sort of thing. I love planning and putting together a good party. I do stress (a lot) come the day, but it’s so much fun to create things or come up with ideas.

Ok, so I’ve gotten really off track. The whole reason for this post was to mention a cool website that I found. The coolest kid birthday party themes are mentioned with loads of pictures and how-to’s. It will definitely be a go-to site for me in the years to come. It’s called, “The Birthday Blog – creative party ideas for kids“.  Enjoy!